From The Times Free Press
"At this point a year ago, Pig Howard was absent from Tennessee’s spring football practices, and the wide receiver’s future with the Volunteers looked, at best, bleak.Zach Azzanni, Howard’s position coach, put a grimmer label on it after Thursday’s practice.“He was pretty much, for lack of a better term, left for dead as far as everyone was concerned,” Tennessee’s receivers coach recalled, “because they didn’t see him around and he was struggling a little bit and had some issues.“We gave him another chance, and he took it — took it and ran with it.”Read more at The Times Free Press"
From 247Sports
"Tennessee linebackers coach Tommy Thigpen — and the rest of the Vols’ staff — still loves rising redshirt freshman middle linebacker Dillon Bates.But they also realize Bates just isn’t quite back up to speed following the shoulder labrum injury that forced him to redshirt after four games last season, so Thigpen said they’re opting to ease the son of former Vols and Dallas Cowboys star Bill Bates back into the fold this spring.Read more at 247Sports"
From Atlanta Journal Constitution
"The 5-star wide receiver from Lovejoy High School signed a football scholarship with Tennessee in February. And he got national media attention for doing so by wearing a white suit with an old-fashioned Tennessee football helmet shaped as a hat.Nobody was surprised by Preston’s flair, not even Tennessee coach Butch Jones. If it’s one thing that Williams is, it’s … never a boring moment.Read more at Atlanta Journal Constitution"